After the introduction of martial law in Ukraine on February 24, 15 men died while trying to illegally leave the country, according to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine..

12 people drowned on the river section of the Ukrainian-Romanian border. The bodies of three men are found in the mountains.

In total, about 12,000 men tried to leave Ukraine by illegal means during martial law..

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Since February 24, about 2,100 criminal proceedings have been initiated: more than 430 of them for illegal transfer of persons, 1,650 for forgery of documents, more than 20 for draft evasion. More than 950 people have been declared suspected of violating the law, 350 people have already been prosecuted.

Also, 410 unsuccessful attempts to bribe border guards in the amount of more than UAH 4.9 million were recorded..

Despite such statistics, a certain number of men still find ways to illegally be outside of Ukraine. Read more about this in Andrey Vishnevsky's article "